Disneyland Paris to be sued by Woman burned by crème brûlée fireball

Would you expect to get burnt while out having your dinner with daughter?

Erica was burned when her clothes caught fire in a Disneyland Paris restaurant says she was told by a manager it was "no different to falling off a bike". Another person at the park asked if I had been wearing lots of perfume, as if they were trying to say it was my fault. I had been in the park all day with my kids so I definitely wasn’t.

She had organised the trip around her birthday, suffered second degree burns, scarring to her face and lost part of her eyebrows and hair.

Erica Osbourne, 37, claims it happened when the Disneyland chef used a blow torch on a crème brûlée.

She said to BBC News "a massive fireball came across the counter towards me" as the crème brûlée sugar was lit.

Mrs Osbourne, from Bristol, said she suffered second degree burns when her jumper caught fire as a chef used the torch on the crème brûlée.

She said the flames narrowly missed her 10-year-old daughter, Abigail, at the Newport Bay Hotel Restaurant.

'My Face was on fire'

"I had ordered the crème brûlée and Abigail had gone to get an ice cream when the chef lit the sugar and a massive fireball came across the counter towards me.

"I was so terrified that I froze to the spot but I remember an intense heat on my face.

"Abigail told me later that I was screaming 'help me! I'm on fire'. My jumper and my face were on fire."

She said a chef jumped over the counter and he and another customer "bundled me to the ground and rolled me around to put out the flames".

“I opened my eyes to see everybody staring at me and there were all of these children screaming. My face was really painful and felt very hot.”

Mrs Osbourne, from Bristol, was treated by paramedics after the incident in February this year before being transferred to hospital where she was kept for several hours.

She said her greatest fear was for her daughter. “She was literally two seconds away from being hit by the fireball and it terrifies me she could of been scarred for life. She has had nightmares about it since the incident.

“Several months on and she says she still pictures me on fire when she closes her eyes.”

She is now in the process of taking legal action against Disneyland Paris for personal injury.

"Incidents of this type are extremely rare," a spokesman for Disneyland Paris said to BBC News

"As this is an ongoing legal issue which is in the process of being resolved, we cant' say anymore about this incident."

James Griffin, from Slater and Gordon, who is representing Mrs Osbourne, said: "This was a terrifying incident that could have resulted in much more serious injuries.

You really do not expect to go away for a break to Disneyland Paris and have a fireball come across the counter at you!

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